Disney California Journey’s Meals & Wine Pageant runs from March 3 to April 25, 2023! This information affords a listing of market cubicles, suggestions & methods for having fun with DCA’s foodie particular occasion, what to order, what not to order, good worth menu objects, and proposals for profiting from this occasion, which has free and upcharge elements. (Up to date March 3, 2023.)
The 2023 Disney California Journey Meals & Wine Pageant will characteristic 12 meals sales space marketplaces with a smorgasbord of candy and savory snacks plus artistic cocktails, beer, wine and non-alcoholic drinks. For 2023, the DCA Meals & Wine Pageant may also supply dishes at choose eating places all through Disney California Journey and the Downtown Disney District plus the Resorts of Disneyland Resort.
In case you’re already at Disneyland Resort and are merely attempting to determine what to order, we will help–try our Checklist of the Finest Dishes on the DCA Meals & Wine Pageant. We’ll be on the occasion all through its opening weekend, taste-testing the entire new additions and updating that record accordingly all through early March 2023. So keep tuned!
Household-friendly leisure additionally returns to the Disney California Journey Meals & Wine Pageant with appearances by the Jammin’ Cooks, Chef Goofy, and the “Alice’s Wonderland Bakery Unbirthday Celebration” present. As well as, there can be much more thrilling leisure to take a look at on the Palisades Stage and the Paradise Gardens bandstand.
Friends of all ages may also take pleasure in crafts, complimentary weekend culinary demonstrations, and artist occasions and signings on the 2023 Disney California Journey Meals & Wine Pageant. It’ll additionally characteristic the return of ticketed occasions, together with culinary demonstrations by a combination of Disneyland Resort and visiting cooks, wine receptions, mixology seminars, and extra.
One other non-culinary spotlight is that Soarin’ Over California will return for a restricted time throughout the 2023 DCA Meals & Wine Pageant! This beloved attraction celebrates the sweetness and marvel of the Golden State, from San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge to the crashing waves in Malibu.
We completely love Soarin’ Over California. In case you’ve solely seen Soarin’ Across the World, you need to positively make some extent to see the OG model of the attraction. Though it’s older, it holds up extremely properly. There’s no CGI, however there may be an extremely vast number of surroundings, concluding in Disneyland. Even should you don’t like California (odd selection to go to a spot you don’t like!), it’s properly value watching!
One factor you’ll word that this information doesn’t cowl is saving cash. Whereas we had lots of enjoyable spending time grazing the marketplaces on the DCA Meals & Wine Pageant, it’s a pricey expertise. There are not any “secret hacks” for parlaying a few filling snacks right into a meal that winds up being inexpensive than counter service choices.
The parts are comparatively small, and the costs comparatively excessive. This could come as no shock to anybody who has spent the day wandering across the Epcot Meals & Wine Pageant. It’s the very same thought.
Whereas Disney California Journey has improved dramatically in the previous few years, it looks like the park’s theme has shifted method from “California” extra in direction of a generic catch-all park with unfastened California ties to shoehorn all the things in. It’s Disneyland’s “studios” park.
That’s not essentially problematic in lots of instances–issues like Automobiles Land are distinctive even when the Route 66 connection is tenuous. Nonetheless, it’s good to see a return to the park’s purported theme with the Meals & Wine Pageant. After experiencing this and some different particular occasions like Lunar New Yr at DCA, I believe this can be a nice method to maintain the “California” in DCA. Now, the place is my Parade of Whales down Buena Vista Avenue, Disney?!
Regardless of all that, the DCA Meals & Wine Pageant has the potential to be a enjoyable occasion that emphasizes the park’s theme. We’ll begin our protection with menus for the marketplaces, then some evaluations of particular issues we tried, adopted by our general impressions of the occasion. Let’s get began…
Market Cubicles
For the 2023 Disney California Journey Meals & Wine Pageant there are 12 market cubicles, a rise from Lunar New Yr earlier than it, however down from the 15 cubicles that appeared on the pre-closure occasion since staffing shortages nonetheless plague the parks.
Listed here are meals sales space menus for the 2023 DCA Meals & Wine Pageant:
Nuts About Cheese
- Petite Burrata: Grilled ciabatta with tomato and olive jam, burrata cheese, pesto, and freeze-dried balsamic (New)
- Crackers & Cheese: Home-made herb crackers with white cheddar fromage blanc, spicy salami unfold, and cherry jam
- Mickey Mouse-shaped Macaron made with SNICKERS: Chocolate Mickey macaron crammed with caramel ganache and SNICKERS cookie bar items
- Flowers & Bees: Gin, elderflower liqueur, lemon juice, and honey, hibiscus, and lavender syrups garnished with a purple pansy (New)
- Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
Uncork California
- California Artisan Cheese Plate that includes Marin French Cheese Co. Jalapeño Triple Cream Brie, Fiscalini Farmstead Purple Moon Cheddar, and Craft Beer Cheddar
- Celebration Chocolate Fudge Brownie: Gooey Chocolate Brownie with Pecans, topped with Chocolate Pecan Glaze and completed with Chocolate Pearls and Silver Stars
- 1923 Mimosa: Prosecco, white cranberry juice, white peach syrup, and lemon juice (New)
- 1939 Mimosa: Prosecco, pineapple and orange juices, and fervour fruit and guava nectar (New)
- 1955 Mimosa: Prosecco, dragon fruit and rose syrups, hibiscus water, and lemon juice (New)
- Century of Magic Mimosa Flight (New)
- Daou Vineyards Chardonnay (New)
- Meiomi Rosé (New)
- Duckhorn Vineyards Sauvignon Blanc (New)
- McBride Sisters Wine Firm Crimson Mix (New)
- Garnet Vineyards Pinot Noir (New)
- Robert Mondavi Vineyards, Personal Choice
- Cabernet Sauvignon aged in bourbon barrels (New)
- Scharffenberger Cellars Brut (New)
- White Wine Flight (New)
- Crimson Wine Flight (New)
- Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
- Meals & Wine CORKCICLE Stemless Flutes (Restrict two per individual, per transaction; no reductions apply)
Berry Patch
- Kenny’s Household Cheesecake topped with combined berry compote (New)
- Blueberry Buttermilk Pie
- Blueberry Pancake Chilly Brew: Joffrey’s Espresso & Tea Co. Mexico Origin Espresso, brown butter, maple and demerara syrup, and oat milk with a blueberry candy cream made with cream, oat milk, vanilla syrup, and purée garnished with cinnamon-flavored cereal crumble (Non-alcoholic) (New)
- Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
D•Lish
- Beef & Barley Poutine: Potato bites with braised beef brief rib, cheese curds, stout gravy, and lager micro sponge (New)
- Cubano Slider: Gradual-roasted, mustard-crusted pork, and sliced smoked ham with melted Swiss cheese and pickle served on a Hawaiian roll
- Sake Melon ’75: Sake, ginger liqueur, prosecco, rock melon syrup, and lemongrass citron purée garnished with an edible purple orchid
- Apricot Tequila Colada: Reposado Tequila, Aperol, apricot purée, coconut cream, and orange and lime juices garnished with a lime wheel
- Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
California Craft Brews
- IPA Sausage Canine on a delicate pretzel roll with onion-pepper jardinière, cheddar cheese sauce, and malt vinegar-onion crunch
- La Bodega Brewing Firm Helles Lager (New)
- Unsung Brewing Co. Gentle Ale (New)
- Harland Brewing Co. Double Dry-Hopped Pale Ale (New)
- Altamont Brewing Maui Waui IPA (New)
- Barrelhouse Brewing Mango Fruited IPA (New)
- Delahunt Brewing Co. 1924 Raspberry Blonde (New)
- Brewery X Pineapple Vanilla Milkshake IPA (New)
- Bottle Logic Brewing Co. Aurora Borealis (New)
- Chapman Crafted Beer Zodiac Sequence Hazy IPA (New)
- Crowns & Hops Brewing Co. The Dopest Hazy IPA (New)
- Golden Street Brewing Strawberry Cart Wheat Ale (New)
- Ballast Level Brewing Co. Watermelon Dorado Double IPA (New)
- Russian River Brewing Firm Completely satisfied Hops IPA (New)
- Vibrant & Balanced Beer Flight (New)
IPA Beer Flight (New) - Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
Cluck-A-Doodle-Moo
- Smoked Honey-Habanero Hen Wings: Hen wings tossed in honey-habanero seasoning (New)
- BBQ Beef Brisket Slider that includes Fiscalini Farmstead Smoked Cheddar with dill pickles on salt and pepper brioche (New)
- Chipotle-Pineapple Bourbon Bitter: Bourbon, pineapple and lime juice, honey syrup, and chipotle bitter purée garnished with a dried purple pineapple wheel (New)
- Smoked Cherry Mezcal-iki Cocktail: Darkish rum, mezcal, cherry purée, grapefruit and lime juices, vanilla syrup, and bitters garnished with a dried grapefruit chip (New)
- Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
- Meals & Wine CORKCICLE Stemless Flutes (Restrict two per individual, per transaction; no reductions apply)
Garlic Kissed
- Grilled High Sirloin with roasted garlic, gruyère smashed potatoes and black garlic chimichurri
- Carbonara Garlic Mac & Cheese that includes Nueske’s Peppered Bacon
- Raspberry Limoncello-Ade: Limoncello, grapefruit liqueur, house-made mint syrup, raspberry syrup, and lemon juice garnished with a white orchid (New)
- Guava-Lychee Mule: Vodka, guava nectar, ginger and lychee syrup, and lemon juice topped with guava and grapefruit exhausting cider and garnished with a lemon wheel (New)
- Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
I Coronary heart Artichokes
- Artichoke Pizzetta: Artichoke and roasted garlic cream cheese with sun-dried tomatoes, pickled onions, and lemon olive oil-drizzled micro greens (New)
- Artichoke Toast with Olive Tapenade: Toasted sliced baguette with artichoke cream cheese topped with olive and artichoke tapenade and drizzled with olive oil
- Ardour Fruit Rum Cocktail: White rum, Italian amaro, ardour fruit nectar, orange and lime juices, and guava purée garnished with an orange wedge
- Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
LA Model
- Glazed BBQ Pork Stomach with Furikake-Togarashi mac salad
- IMPOSSIBLE Gyro-inspired Naan: Gyro-inspired flatbread that includes IMPOSSIBLE floor beef with chipotle hummus, tzatziki, and spiced crispy chickpeas
- Echo Park Cooler: Joffrey’s Espresso & Tea Co. Ceylon & Raspberry Rose Tea, raspberry purée, lychee and rose syrups, and lime juice garnished with a lime wheel (Non-alcoholic) (New)
- Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
- Meals & Wine CORKCICLE Stemless Flutes (Restrict two per individual, per transaction; no reductions apply)
Golden Desires
- Elote Paleta: Candy corn paleta with parm crema, chile-lime seasoning, corn crunch, and cilantro (New)
- Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Flatbread with basil pesto (New)
- Central California Cooler: Peach purée, apple, orange and lemon juices garnished with an apple chip
- Ficklewood Ciderworks Guava Grove: Grapefruit, guava, and tropical flavors with Nelson Sauvin Hops (New)
Peppers Cali-Ente
- Chile Relleno Empanada with arbol pepper salsa and Oaxaca and cotija cheeses
- Camarones a la Diabla: Spicy shrimp with California chile and cilantro rice (New)
- Cantarito-Model Paloma: Reposado Tequila, habanero-infused pineapple juice, lime juice, rock melon syrup, and Fresca garnished with a pineapple wheel and chile-lime seasoning
- Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
Avocado Time
- IMPOSSIBLE Nacho Mac & Cheese: Cheddar mac that includes seasoned IMPOSSIBLE floor beef, tomatoes, olives, jalapeños, and guacamole (New)
- IMPOSSIBLE Al Pastor Tacos: Al pastor taco that includes IMPOSSIBLE pork with grilled pineapple and avocado-tomatillo sauce (New) (Plant-based providing)
- Blackberry-Lavender Lemonade: Blackberry purée and syrup, lavender syrup, and pineapple and lemon juices garnished with a lemon wheel (New)
- Purple Glow Grapes and Inexperienced Glow Grapes (Restrict 10 per individual)
Sip & Savor Move
Throughout the 2023 DCA Meals & Wine Pageant, the Sip and Savor Move can be obtainable for buy by all friends. The cross offers a commemorative credential, lanyard and eight handy entitlement tabs that you may redeem for choose meals and nonalcoholic drinks at taking part areas throughout the 2023 Disney California Journey Meals & Wine Pageant.
We’ve completed this a number of instances, and strategically order the most costly savory objects on every menu (and pay out of pocket for desserts), which finally ends up saving us a good amount of cash. This cuts prices a bit and makes a number of the dearer objects a bit extra in keeping with actuality.
Household Leisure
The Hollywood Backlot in Hollywood Land can be house to an assortment of leisure and displays throughout the 2023 Disney California Journey Meals & Wine Pageant. Friends could meet Chef Goofy or dance together with Chip ‘n’ Dale because the Jammin’ Cooks serve up tasty new rhythms utilizing pots and pans.
Disney Junior’s new animated sequence “Alice’s Wonderland Bakery” is the inspiration behind a limited-time competition expertise for junior cooks on the Hollywood Backlot Stage. Throughout “Alice’s Wonderland Bakery Unbirthday Celebration,” stay host Rolly Pin and two animated characters from the sequence, Alice and Princess Rosa, invite friends ages 3 by means of 11 to precise their creativity by means of hands-on cupcake adorning with a particular go to from Minnie Mouse, who arrives to admire their skills. Area is proscribed for this expertise, and participant sign-ups start 45 minutes earlier than every present time.
All through DCA, there can be stay musical performances, artwork shows, family-friendly leisure and craft stations for youths.
Seminars & Signature Occasions
On Saturdays and Sundays on the Hollywood Backlot Stage, friends of all ages can watch culinary demonstrations from a various mixture of Disney and visiting cooks, who will put together their favourite dishes whereas sharing insider cooking suggestions. Notable presenters over time have included Disneyland Resort Govt Chef Chris Maggetti, Pastry Sous Chef Gracie Gomez, Chef Jet Tila, Chef Shachi Mehra, Chef Kevin Bludso, and plenty of others.
Presently, there may be not a schedule of free culinary demonstrations for the 2023 Disney California Journey Meals & Wine Pageant obtainable on-line. Examine at info kiosks in-park at DCA for the day’s occasions upon arrival.
Disneyland has launched the schedule of paid reservations for Wine, Beer and Mixology Schooling & Tasting Seminars throughout the 2023 DCA Meals & Wine Pageant. Advance cost for these is required, and area is proscribed for these well-liked occasions. We advocate reserving prematurely.
Right here’s the 2023 schedule of Wine, Beer & Mixology seminars on the 2023 Disney California Journey Meals & Wine Pageant:
Wine Seminars
- Friday, March 3: Testarossa Vineyard
- Saturday, March 4: Testarossa Vineyard
- Sunday, March 5: Testarossa Vineyard
- Friday, March 10: GoGi Wines
- Saturday, March 11: GoGi Wines
- Sunday, March 12: GoGi Wines
- Friday, March 17: Wiens Household Cellars
- Saturday, March 18: Wiens Household Cellars
- Sunday, March 19: Wiens Household Cellars
- Friday, March 24: BEV Wines
- Saturday, March 25: BEV Wines
- Sunday, March 26: BEV Wines
- Friday, March 31: Disney Sommelier Arielle Harris
- Saturday, April 1: McBride Sisters Wine Co.
- Sunday, April 2: McBride Sisters Wine Co.
- Friday, April 7: Hill Household Estates
- Saturday, April 8: Hill Household Estates
- Sunday, April 9: Hill Household Estates
- Friday, April 14: Disney Sommelier Eri Horii
- Saturday, April 15: Fess Parker Vineyard
- Sunday, April 16: Fess Parker Vineyard
- Friday, April 21: Canvasback Vineyard
- Saturday, April 22: Canvasback Vineyard
- Sunday, April 23: Canvasback Vineyard
Beer Seminars
- Friday, March 3: Crowns & Hops Brewing Co.
- Saturday, March 4: Crowns & Hops Brewing Co.
- Friday, March 10: Honey Pot Meadery
- Saturday, March 11: Honey Pot Meadery
- Friday, March 17: Unsung Brewing Firm
- Saturday, March 18: Unsung Brewing Firm
- Friday, March 24: Bottle Logic Brewing
- Saturday, March 25: Bottle Logic Brewing
- Friday, March 31: Golden Street Brewing
- Saturday, April 1: Golden Street Brewing
- Friday, April 7: Stone Brewing
- Saturday, April 8: Stone Brewing
- Friday, April 14: Three Weavers Brewing Co.
- Saturday, April 15: Three Weavers Brewing Co.
- Friday, April 21: Pizza Port Brewing Co.
- Saturday, April 22: Pizza Port Brewing Co.
Mixology Seminars
- Saturday, March 4: Dangerous Birdy of Kuduowl
- Sunday, March 5: Dangerous Birdy of Kuduowl
- Saturday, March 11: Disney Mixology that includes the Lamplight Lounge
- Sunday, March 12: Disney Mixology that includes the Lamplight Lounge
- Saturday, March 18: Disney Mixology that includes Carthay Circle Lounge
- Sunday, March 19: Disney Mixology that includes Carthay Circle Lounge
- Saturday, March 25: Disney Mixology that includes the Pageant Marketplaces
- Sunday, March 26: Disney Mixology that includes the Pageant Marketplaces
- Saturday, April 1: The Blind Rabbit
- Sunday, April 2: The Blind Rabbit
- Saturday, April 8: 818 Tequila
- Sunday, April 9: 818 Tequila
- Saturday, April 15: Disney Mixology that includes the Hollywood Lounge
- Sunday, April 16: Disney Mixology that includes the Hollywood Lounge
- Saturday, April 22: Disney Mixology that includes Dealer Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar
- Sunday, April 23: Disney Mixology that includes Dealer Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar
Finally, costs are excessive and parts are small on the 2023 Disney California Journey’s Meals & Wine Pageant, however the meals is nice. It’s straightforward and pleasurable to hit the cubicles whereas wandering the park, making for a enjoyable expertise–and a pleasant method to graze across the park sampling completely different cuisines.
With that stated, I’d cease in need of calling this an “expertise” like might be stated of Epcot’s Meals & Wine Pageant. That positively has an ideal experiential ingredient, doubtless partially since you’re wandering the nations of the world whereas grazing the cubicles. For us, that’s what makes the excessive costs there palatable. Yeah, you recognize you’re paying an excessive amount of, however it may be such an pleasurable occasion that you simply don’t thoughts an excessive amount of.
This isn’t to decrease the DCA Meals & Wine Pageant. It’s positively enjoyable to strive completely different dishes from the Golden State, however isn’t as all-encompassing as its Epcot counterpart. The DCA occasion is a change of tempo and one thing completely different to do, however not a cause to go to the park in itself. It’s a pleasant diversion should you’re already within the park, however should you can’t make it, you’re not lacking a lot.
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Your Ideas
Will you be attending the 2023 DCA Meals & Wine Pageant? Any new or returning cubicles you’re excited to strive? Reserving any of the particular seminars, or sticking to the free ones? Do you agree or disagree with ideas on the 2023 Disney California Journey Meals & Wine Pageant? Any extra ideas on particular samples? Share any questions, suggestions, or extra ideas you’ve within the feedback!